In his Screen Tests, Andy Warhol manipulated the performances; the actors had a relationship with the camera that fluctuated between seduction and visual self-disclosure. In this project friends are asked to turn on the computer camera, minimize it and resume working. The idea is that they are not having a relationship with the camera yet there is an agreement of looking, of correspondence, and of interaction. The time recorded is a happening and nothing happening, an appearance and disappearance of self. Are they performing? Is there a moment when performance ceases? Do we get to witness that moment?

This project stems from various things I have observed about how we project an image and how the emphasis on the image has changed over time. From Dick Cavett interviews from the 70s, to Warhols Screen Tests, to teenage self portraits on YouTube, to seeing someone left on Skype all day, I wonder about the assertion of a projected image to increasingly stand in for the self. Or is this a portal into us watching us watch us in a momentary relaxing of the pose?